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Week 1:
Assignment: Think about project and project team
Jan 20: Principles of HCI; Working in teams; Class Project Brainstorming
Assignment: Project Proposal assigned
Reading: Pew (Introduction to HCI)
Week 2:
Reading: Nielsen Ch. 1 - 4 Sullivan
Jan 27: User Centered Design
Reading: Nielsen, Ch. 7, Gomoll
Week 3:
Reading: Cooper Ch 9-10, Holtzblatt
Assignment: Project Proposals due
Assignment: Personas, Task Analysis assigned
Feb 3: Practice Persona Development; Task Analysis
Reading: Cooper Ch 11, Newman & Landay
Week 4:
Reading: Norman, Ch 1 & 2. Optional additional Norman reading
Optional Reading:
Links on how to write surveys
Qualities of a good survey question
Developing a questionnaire
How to conduct an interview
Feb 10: Affordances, Mappings
Reading: Norman, Ch 3 & 4.
Week 5:
Reading: Norman Ch. 5, Cooper (About Face, Ch 28), Raskin Ch 2., Bloopers Ch 5 (pp. 288-304)
Assignment: Personas, Task Analysis due
Assignment: Scenarios, Comparative Analysis, and Initial Design assigned
Feb 17: Locus of Attention, Modes, Errors
Reading: Nielsen Ch. 5, Bloopers Ch 1 & 2
Week 6:
Assignment: Scenarios and Initial Design due
Assignment: Low-fi Prototype and Test assigned
Feb 24: Low-fi prototyping and testing
Reading: Rettig, Beaudouin-Lafon, Jesse James Garrett Interaction charts
Assignment: Individual Assignment assigned
Week 7:
Reading: Bloopers Ch 5 (pp. 248-288)
Mar 3: Wireframing; Card Sorting
Reading: Robertson, Lamantia,
Excel template for Robertson reading More Card Sorting Resources
Example of the Card Sorting process
Results of exercise using Websort.net:
Plot of card sorting
clustering results
XLS file with card sorting exercise
Week 8:
Reading: Nielsen Ch. 6, Jeffries et al., Robson
Mar 10: Finish Formal Usability Testing; Midterm review/practice
Assignment: Low-fi Prototype and Test due
Assignment: First Interactive Prototype assigned
Reading: Kurtenbach et al. '93 and '94.
Reading: Practice Midterm
Week 9:
Reading: Bloopers Ch. 3
Assignment: Individual Assignment due
Mar 17: Midterm
--Spring Recess--
Week 10:
Reading: Bloopers Ch. 6
Assignment: Project Heuristic Evaluation assigned
Mar 31: Class Presentations
Reading: Bloopers Ch. 7
Assignment: First Interactive Prototype due
Week 11:
Reading: Bloopers Ch. 4
Apr 7: In-class reports of Project Heuristic Evaluations (Marti at CHI)
Assignment: Project Heuristic Evaluation due
Assignment: Second Interactive Prototype assigned
Week 12:
Apr 14: In-class project problem solving
Assignment: Second Interactive Prototype due
Assignment: Pilot Usability Study assigned
Week 13:
Reading: Hochstein
Apr 21: Alternative Prototyping Methods
Reading: CHI prototyping papers
Week 14:
Reading: Weiser, Bergman & Haitani
Apr 28: Search User Interfaces
Assignment: Pilot Usability Study due
Assignment: Third Interactive Prototype (Final Writeup) assigned
Reading: Yee et al.
Week 15:
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d.r.e.a.m.
SIMS Alumni Network
VERN
May 5: Class Project Presentations:
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Sylvia
Uhle
PhotoCat
Finals Week: